Linux Conference Slovenia

Jul062010

Linux conferenceSeptember 27-28, 2010Portoroz, Slovenia
OW2 will participate and give a keynote presentation at the Linux Conference in Slovenia on September 27, 2010 at 11am.
The presentation will be given by Gabriele Ruffatti, Engineering Group andOW2 Board member.Presentation title:"Open Source Communities and business ecosystem strategy: The OW2 Consortium from the perspective of a Board member".

Presentation abstract:
The talk describes OW2 Consortium as a prominent example of a new generation
of Open Source communities aiming at promoting a broad OSS stack and the
development of business collaboration.
OW2 includes both a software platform and a business one. The development of
an ecosystem strategy balancing the community needs and business goals is
the key to success.
This talk is not an official OW2 presentation but it offers a general
overview on OW2 structure and presents its main assets like project code
base and activities, such as the Business Intelligence and Cloudware
initiatives.
Moreover, it gives the point of view of an OW2 founding member who is active
in other OS initiatives and communities as well. This offers the chance to
describe and compare different approaches to the open source domain,
scoring them in order to mark the most prominent one, including different
approaches, attitudes and specific goals in a common vision.>

Subjects for Linux conference 2010 are:

Cloud computing from point of enterprise information systems or business services and costs reductions connected with them- Open Source software for ERP, CRM, BPM- Security - Data Leak Prevention (DLP) inside enterprise, identity steal, safe connections- Open licensing of software and use cases of software with OS licenses usage in software development- Outsourcing of services and software in connection with main thematics - cloud computing- Integration of telephony and mobile telephony with help of OSS- Development platforms Android, Maemo, Symbian- Green IT, green data centers